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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

So more than 24 hours after we scooped the news that OpenAI’s agents had hijacked a small German wiki site and commandeered it as a comms platform, OpenAI acknowledges what it calls a “wiki incident.” www.reuters.com/business/med...

reuters.comOpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency around unintended AI behaviorOpenAI said incidents including a swarm of its agents hijacking a German site and using it as a springboard for cheating and other rogue behavior require more transparency.
Raphael Satter@raphae.li

Scoop: There's been *another* previously undisclosed AI agent breakout from OpenAI, this one discovered by an informal group of researchers in Berkeley. The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests. With @deepa.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this springA swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to ​new research and two people familiar with the matter.

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